clouds&resolutions

i like looking at the clouds, not because i'm a flower child or anything because i'm totally not, but because they remind me of being a kid and children's books and just everything awesome about the world. because when you're a kid and looking up at the clouds you don't care that you have homework to do, or that you're fighting with your brother, and you don't know or care that the clouds are actually moving because the world is spinning around and around with you on top of it. (or is it wind? science was never my strongest subject.)

all you see is clouds that look like dragons and knights and monsters and your grandfather and france and pointing fingers and anything else your young and unhindered mind can dream up. that's why i love clouds.

the other day i saw this awesome cloud/cloud group because colorado has awesome clouds all the time.

i think it looks like a dragon twisting its head around towards its tail to firebreathe on whatever is following it. probably an airplane or a hot air balloon. and then it kind of morphed as the clouds moved and it looked like something completely different. cloudwatching is awesome. if you ever have writer's block or just a general lack of inspiration and creativity and imagination, just go outside and hope there are clouds and then watch some clouds!


anyway, now that it's 2011, i've got a fresh list of resolutions to not follow up on. although the top of the list is "actually follow through with this year's resolutions," so we'll see if that makes me work harder. my number two? "enjoy life and write more letters."


challenge to make the world better: learn some words in a foreign language so that if you ever go to that country you can brighten a foreign stranger's day by being able to say "i love you" and "please" and "thank you" and "you have a nice butt" (i'm going with swedish)

monday morning music:

rogue valley. album: the bookseller's house









boxes of honey nut cheerios in 2011: one. (i started before the year turned 2011 though, so i didn't really eat a whole box in two and a half days. but i could have.)